This occurred to me last night while driving home. It may have circulated around here before, but if so, I don't remember it.

Add a comment to this journal telling me what you remember about first meeting me (online most certainly counts; if you have a choice between online and in person, I'll request the most amusing :-) I'll respond to each comment with my memories of you.

And, of course, if you like it, try it in your own journal.

Current Mood:accomplishedCurrent Music: the clicking and binging of the 8:30am office

Ah, yes, that road trip. I remember chiefly feeling an enormous sensation of relief. Listening to Chuck talk about you would cause anyone to expect a goddess walking, and instead I found someone warm, welcoming, interesting, and intensely real.

I have no strong memories of meeting you online. In person, I remember meeting you at Graham and Cari's, I believe, and I was surprised at how...approachable you were, I think. Friendly, which, like Tersa's comment, is meant in the best possible way ("Victim of the Myth").

I also recall saying the word "Dramamine" offhandedly and then looking horrified that I'd said it, and surprised and relieved when you burst out laughing.

I'm pretty sure I first met you on Garou, but I have no real memories of that. I remember talking to you early on @ TooMUSH, a bit warily. I've known too many self-proclaimed god/goddesses in my time, and there was this Ambar reputation, so I wasn't sure if you were going to be one of those people who talked themselves up or what.

(Answer: "or what." You've never struck me as modest, but you also back it up.)

oh dear. i don't quite recall offhand meeting you online. and i don't remember if it was the first time i met you in person, but the first time i *remember* meeting you in person was just before you started a certain mailing list. i think we were eating chinese food somewhere - maybe mary's, maybe not.

I am fairly sure we met in person before we met online (bandykin aside!) but for me you are inextricably mixed up with the aforementioned summer of 1986, which is when I met a *whole* bunch of people who fascinated me, and somehow haven't thrown me out yet. (As if elbows could stir itself to collective action anyway. :-)

Janelle/C'vin/Cat/etc

I first met you as Weyrwoman Ambar, rider of Kyriath, on Pern NC. Since I impressed at Ista and never really interacted with you I don't know that you'll remember me. I will note that I was terrfied of you and Amberyl for the longest time. Meeting Amby in real life helped lessen that. I haven't met you in real life and am still wary of offending you, but I also have realized that paging you with cat questions (especially when my suicidal kitty had found yet another means of ending it all), even when your status is "Page me and DIE", is usually safe.

ancient history

I remember dealing with one of the "chipmunk" machines in the 6.001 lab, that had been left running some program or other, and the disk in the drive was labelled "ambar"... which I recalled having seen over on Athena side, and made the connection... someone from the lab ended up talking to you about it (I don't recall it actually getting you in *trouble* or anything :) but it did mean I paid more attention to you being around after that :)

Re: ancient history

This may be the hack I pulled with my 6.001 tutorial partner. Our tutor told us how to put the chipmunks in a loop, and we decided, being fully equipped with the idiocy of freshmen, that it would be fun to lock up the entire lab.

I'm not sure when I met you online. I knew who you were from seeing you logged in on MIT and Bell Labs machines. I have a couple of in-person memories; one when I interviewed at Oracle and you were in the room, and another where I was standing somewhere on Bryant St in PA with some other people and you came up and joined us. You gave me a really great hug. :) I'm not sure what the order of those in-person events were, but I think they occurred sometime around 1988.

I heard about you for months before we actually spoke since you paged bumblepudding a lot on Pern. I still remember the description you gave of yourself when you drove down with Amberyl, and Emily (or is it Jennifer or Ellen? I can't remember) from Boston via Philly. You described yourself as the large, red-headed farmer's wife.